BELL — You see the young boxers and they’re almost like watching teenage soldiers, lining up for the airplane to war.

They’re undefeated, most of them. Their faces are innocently smooth. If they’re being promoted correctly, they are fighting people from boxing purgatory, the guys with the 12-11-4 records, the older men who have come back from those wars, without a GI Bill or VA hospital waiting.

The young guys can beat them and learn, with little resistance. They build their records to 12-0, 15-0, 20-0. They don’t call it a zero, they call it an Oh. “I got an Oh and I don’t want to let it go,” welterweight champ Keith Thurman said last weekend.

The process continues Thursday, on a Golden Boy card at Fantasy Springs Casino.

Joseph Diaz Jr. is 25-0. He fights Victor Terrazas, a former champ who lost his belt to Leo Santa Cruz in 2013. Terrazas has won one of his past four fights and is 35.

If “JoJo” wins, he is in line to fight Gary Russell Jr., the WBC featherweight champ. That is a combat zone.

Diaz, 25, has been swearing off the Big Macs to stay at 126 pounds, although he said he’d have one Friday morning. He knows there’s pressure afoot, not just to win but to excite.

Diaz’s past four fights have been decisions. This sport does not operate strictly on bottom lines. It is run by promoters and cable networks. You shoot to thrill. Diaz knows this.

“I tend to be on the defensive sometimes,” Diaz said, sitting on a bench at Azteca Gym, where Julio Cesar Chavez and other Hall of Famers once trained.

“Hopefully my speed will be a factor and I’ll get that late stoppage I want. I need to show I have the power.”

Manny Robles Jr. is 14-0, also a featherweight. His dad is training Oscar Valdez for his fight with Scott Quigg in March. They’re working in Mexico, so the ubiquitous Rudy Hernandez is training Robles for Isaias Martin Gonzalez, who is 24-11 and has been stopped nine times.

Robles grew up in the game.He went to Paramount High and played some basketball. Boxing was his main curriculum.

“Only my really close friends knew I boxed,” Robles said, shaking his head and smiling. “And when they would tell other people about it I just hated it. I’m pretty quiet and humble. I don’t really want a lot of people knowing my business.”

Robles is 23. He said it isn’t hard to be patient. “The way I look at it, I’m in the gym anyway,” he said. “You have to be there. You don’t know when you might get that phone call.”

Christian “Chimpa” Gonzalez is 18-1, with 15 knockouts. He lost his Oh almost a year ago to Romero Duno, who surprised him with a first-round knockdown and finished the job in the second.

“I had to learn to relax,” Gonzalez said. “My mistake was not taking my time, maybe not taking a couple of rounds off. I used to want the knockout all the time. Now if it comes, it’s more than welcome. If not, you go the distance.’

On Thursday, he is fighting Ray Perez (21-9). His older brother is Alejandro “Cobrita” Gonzalez, who won a featherweight title in 1995 over Kevin Kelley and then defended it twice successfully.

“My brother seemed a little worried in the ring after the knockout,” Alejandro said. “It’s hard to come back from something like that. And he was dominating the round, too. So this fight will tell us where he is mentally.”

Chimpa, 22, has won twice since then. But in 2016, they all had to deal with the murder of Alejandro Jr., who had lost a close title fight to Carl Frampton. His body and two others were found in a pickup truck in Guadalajara, shot and tortured.

Frampton was particularly shaken. After he beat Leo Santa Cruz, he sent Alejandro Sr. the trunks he wore that night.

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